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André Gide
Geburtstag: 22. November 1869
Todesdatum: 19. Februar 1951
Andere Namen: André Paul Guillaume Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide [ɑ̃dˈʁe pɔl ɡiˈjom ʒiːd] war ein französischer Schriftsteller. 1947 erhielt er den Literaturnobelpreis.
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„Mit den schönen Gefühlen macht man die schlechte Literatur.“
— André Gide
Dostoiewsky. Paris 1923; p.247
„Theorie des Buches: toter Buchstabe? Ein Sack Samenkörner.“
— André Gide
Aus den Tagebüchern 1889-1939. Übersetzung und Auswahl von Maria Schaefer-Rümelin. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1961. Seite 53 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=oZA2AAAAIAAJ&q=buchstabe
Original franz.: "Théorie du livre: lettre morte? Un sac de graines." - Journal 1889-1939. Gallimard 1951. p. 93 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=RKoNAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Th%C3%A9orie+du+livre%22
„André Gide soll gesagt haben: "Oft merkt man nicht, wenn sich eine Tür schließt, dass sich eine andere öffnet."“
— André Gide
Zugeschrieben, Gesine Schwan im Interview. DIE ZEIT - Campus Nr. 3/2009 http://www.zeit.de/campus/2009/03/mensa-interview/komplettansicht 10. Mai 2009
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller: The Open Door. Doubleday 1957. p. 11 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=-WMIAQAAIAAJ&q=opened
„Jeder Schweizer trägt seine Gletscher in sich.“
— André Gide, buch Stirb und werde
Stirb und werde. Deutsch von Johanna Borek. Gesammelte Werke, Bd. 1/1. Stuttgart 1989. S. 328
Original franz.: "tout Suisse porte en soi ses glaciers" - Si le grain ne meurt (1926). p. 266 oasisfle.com/ebook http://www.oasisfle.com/ebook_oasisfle/gide_si_le_grain_ne_meurt.pdf
„It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.“
— André Gide, Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d'automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=xUtdDnEhkMMC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false
Frequently misattributed to Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain.
„I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.“
— André Gide
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964), Context: In my present insistence on high standards you will see that there is less self-indulgence than resolve and application. I do not let the Christian monopolize the ideal of perfection. I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.
Maurice in “Characters,” p. 298
„Man is more interesting than men.“
— André Gide
Journals 1889-1949, Context: Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Literature and Ethics, entry for 1901
